The University’s Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) team has been shortlisted for the Best KTP Support Team Award, while its KTP Associate Lulu Qu has been shortlisted for a Future Leader Award at the 2022 Best of the Best Awards, which will be announced at an awards ceremony in Liverpool on 12 October.

Qu earned her award nomination for her two-year project working with Hastings-based company Judge Sampson, a renowned international publisher of postcards, calendars and greeting cards founded in 1907.

Qu’s engagement with the company centres on a two-year business transformation project drawing on both university and individual management expertise to complete a digital transformation in Judge Sampson’s management and marketing processes, the development of a new product portfolio informed by sector research, and the creation of new staff training programmes.